Translation seems like one of the major issues!
So far, sex and gender are not distinguished as far as I can tell.
-Jodi
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Powers <LtPowers_Wiki(a)rochester.rr.com>wrote;wrote:
I wonder if that's a translation issue. English
Wikipedia is mostly
concerned with gender, but other languages might only consider sex, or use
the same word for both concepts.
Powers &8^]
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Kaldari [mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org]
Sent: Tuesday 21 May 2013 19:07
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Subject: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
An interesting blog post about sex ratio data from Wikipedia and
Wikidata:
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877
Interestingly, Wikidata only allows assigning a 'sex' to a person, not a
'gender'.
Ryan Kaldari
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